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...local political jargon for full, direct elections) to clean air. Once known for their political apathy, Hong Kongers now want a greater role in the running of their city. Though he won't say it outright, Tsang knows that he needs to go beyond his formal-and narrow-base of support of China's leaders and Hong Kong's business tycoons to win wider public backing in order to get things done. "I think he's sincere," says Chinese University of Hong Kong political scientist Ivan Choy. "But [his] is a difficult job, if not mission impossible...
Fort Campbell is a long way from the island in the Thar Thar Canal, north of Baghdad. But a court-martial at the U.S. military base, which straddles Kentucky and Tennessee, has begun to examine in detail what happened in that Iraqi locale in May 2006, with polarizing consequences for the way Americans perceive the way the war is being waged...
...Mackey said that when a report of the three detainees was radioed in to the base, an irate officer supposedly asked why the men had not been killed. Soldiers have also testified that before the raid, commanders had instructed them to leave no military-age men alive on the island...
...called "The Last Marathon" - a 26.2-mile race across ice, rock, snow, and mud on Antarctica's King George Island. Runners huddle by the start line, shielded from the wind in the lee of a Russian research base, before bursting out along the rugged, hilly course. Up and down three quarters of a mile of glacier - twice - and looping through a further three Antarctic research stations, the 145 finishers race in hats, gloves, fleece and windbreakers. In fact, on race day in late February, it's warm enough to be snowing - this is, after all, the end of the Antarctic...
...region has trebled, according to the International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators. The marathoners aren't the only adventurous souls holidaying in the Antarctic summer. A geophysicist who leads a tour at Vernadsky, a Ukrainian station visited by the runners two days after their race, says his base receives a ship just about every day this time of year. Data from this research outpost (operated, at the time, by the British) helped scientists discover the hole in the ozone layer. Today, Vernadsky also boasts the planet's southernmost souvenir shop, a postcard service, and a well-stocked bar with...